What do you need to know about the BBC Green Sport Awards?
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One of the things we love most about sport is how it can use its power for positive effect.
As part of our commitment to a greener future, we have once again partnered with Sport Positive Summit for the BBC Green Sport Awards.
They celebrate individuals and organisations from across the globe who are actively contributing to a more sustainable future through their sporting profile and practises.
Find out more about the categories below, and learn about the nominees here.
Athlete of the Year
This is for a professional domestic sportsperson who has advocated for, raised awareness of, or instigated action on environmental and/or climate change issues in the past 12 months.
World Athlete of the Year
This is for a professional international sportsperson who has advocated for, raised awareness of, or instigated action on environmental and/or climate change issues in the past 12 months.
Evergreen Athlete 2024
This is for a professional sportsperson who has proactively demonstrated ongoing support for environmental and/or climate change issues for a number of years.
Elite Organisation of the Year
This is for any professional or high-performance sports organisation/sporting body that is involved in the organisation or planning of competitive sport (such as teams, clubs, associations, federations, competitions, championships and national governing bodies) and has proactively demonstrated support for environmental and climate change issues in the past 12 months.
Grassroots Organisation of the Year
This is for any amateur or non-professional sporting body that is involved in the organisation of sport at a community level (such as local clubs, teams, groups, associations, national or regional governing organisations and charities) as well as other not for profit/community organisations that proactively demonstrated support for environmental and climate change issues in the past 12 months through sport.
Recommendations of sportspeople and sports organisations demonstrating significant environmental consciousness and/or actions in the past 12 months were provided by experts inside and outside the UK. A list combining these names was provided to the BBC Green Sport Awards production team and was then discussed by a shortlisting panel. A panel of independent experts in climate and environment issues from inside and outside the BBC then judged the winner of each category. Our judges this year were:
Claire Poole - founder and CEO of Sport Positive Summit
Alex Kay-Jelski - director, BBC Sport
Qasa Alom - presenter of Green Sport Awards and The Climate Question
Lindita Xhaferi-Salihu - United Nations sport for climate action lead
Chemmy Alcott – Ski Sunday presenter and former professional skier
The winners of the BBC Green Sport Awards 2024 will be named on 7 October 2024 and will feature in a programme on BBC iPlayer in the UK and on BBC.com for the rest of the world.